Blog: Wendy Davis is much too hot to be a feminist hero

I’d like for you to read this blog and then try explain it to someone else ( out loud) without sounding incredibly bizarre.

A WordPress blogger has done some very scientific research and found that Texas State Senator Wendy Davis is clearly not a real feminist hero because she used to look frumpy as a frizzy-haired brunette in the 1990s and since then has become incredibly hot.

“Somehow, during the past two decades she has been transformed from a frumpy, pleasant looking but plain-faced, flat-chested brunette with thick, messy hair, into a buxom blonde with excellent facial features and sleek, long, perfectly coiffed hair, like she stepped straight out of Vogue.

For someone who in the early 1990s was a feminist activist in law school, and who is currently posing as a champion of women’s rights, standing up to men who seek to dictate the way women should live, she seems to have devoted an unusual amount of attention to her physical appearance.”

Meaning, if you want to be a feminist hero, or a champion of women’s rights, you must not under any circumstances become blonde or hot, or appear to care about your appearance in any way. And you must not ever look good enough to appear in Vogue, because everyone knows only women-hating anti-feminists appear in fashion magazines.

The blog goes on to claim that Davis could only look as good as she does now through plastic surgery and not just a little bit of plastic surgery. You’d have to be a plastic surgery addict.

“Her transformation is arguably more startling than that of women who have used plastic surgery in an effort to become “Human Barbie Dolls” (see, for example, “before” and “after” photos here). You be the judge: Wendy Davis, superhero, or superfake ‘Human Barbie Doll’?”

The blogger cites three main pieces of evidence to support this fake Wendy Davis theory:

1. Photos of law professor and Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds, who, according to the blog, looks much worse at 52.

2. Photos of Barack Obama, in which the blogger shows he looks incredibly young and awesome as a college student and much worse at age 51.

3. Photos of Wendy Davis as a college student, with really bad 90s hair, and later as a Texas senator, looking incredibly young and hot and awesome.

In addition to the obvious – and rather offensive – fallacies put forth regarding the relationship between a person’s looks and her value to a national discussion that has nothing at all to do with looks, are a few more holes in this “evidence:”

1. Pretty much everyone looked worse in the 90s, especially if they had bad 90s hair.

2. Glenn Reynolds looks exactly the same in all three photos.

3. One could argue that Barack Obama, despite looking older in his 50s, might actually look hotter now, because don’t you get an instant hotness upgrade the moment you’re elected president of the United States?

4. Most people, after having the amount of plastic surgery this blogger accuses Wendy Davis of having, do not look hot in any way. Case in point: